The Washington critic., 1887-12-14
NEW BOOKS RECEIVED.

FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS and Other Stories
of New England Life. BY G. ii. W.
Boston: Little, Brown & Co. Washington;
Robert Beall, i95 Pennsylvania avenue.
Some of the stories in this entertaining
little volume have already appeared in the
Century and Atlantic Monthly, though two
Of the best of them are now printed for the
first time. They consist of quaint and
humorous sketches of Massachusetts country
folk, in shore and along shore, and, as
characterzations of peculiar classes of pco-
pie are cleverly drawn and with great like
ness to life
PRE.GJicIAL MAN AND THE AIyAN RACE. A
History of Creation and of the birthplace
and Wanderings of Man in Central Asia,
from b. G. $500 to B. {. 5000, with History
of the Arynn Race, commencing II. c.
1900, their Rise and Progress, and the
FORMULATION of the First Revelation;
their Spiritual Dcclincand the Destruction
of the Nation, H. G. i705; the lnroads of
the Turauians and the Scattering of the
Remnants of the Race, u. G. 1901, as De
cilhcrcd from very Ancient Document.
Also, an Exposition of the Law governing
the Formation and Duration of the Glacial
Period and Il Record of its Effects on Man,
and OH the tonliguratiOn of the Globe. \
Chapter on the Dclugc its Cause, Locality
and Extent, and an Account of the
"Oanncs Myth" by LORENZO Burgc. Bos-
ton: LeetV Shepard. Washington VIM.
Balantyne Il SON i2S Seventh street.
Mr. Burgc's speculatons and deductions
as set forth in this remarkable book arc
based upon or derived from the allegorica
history contained in the carly chapters of
Genesis, which embrace within their out
ward form complete story of the creation,
of pre-glacial man. of the Aryan race and of
the Asatic dclugc, all the more wonderful
because of the fact that such history has
been in possession of the human family for
about 6,000 years, with barely suspicion of
its true and comprehensive character. The
author has certainly found in Genesis more
knowledge of the remote past than it has
ever before entered the mind of man to con-
ccive, and his discovery is not only corrob-
Grated by what is known of geological peri
DDS but by the testimony of hitherto unin-
tcrprcted ciphcrs found in biblical history.
TnE LIFE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON STUDIED
ANEW. by Edward Everett Hale, author
of "A Man Without Country "Ten
Times Ten," "rhc Story of Spain" etc.
| New York G. 7. Putnum's Sons. Wash
ington: Robert Beall, 405 Pennsylvania
avenue.
DR.. Hale has done the new generation of
American readers Il really valuable service
in presenting them with picture of the
Father of His Country drawn from life
rather than from the fanccd ideals. Here
we have the "liuman Westinghouse man
like other men, neither demigod nor saint,
but person of ''hot passions, strong i'm.
pulses and vigorous determination" The
author has made long and patient research
of Washington's diaries ana letters and with
the help of these and information drawn
from other sources, has produced probably
the nearest perfect likeness of the man that
is possible to be created. All classes OF
readers, old as well us new, will find pleasure
and profit in its contemplation.
| THE STORY OF IRELAND by Hon. Emily
Lawlcss, author of "lIurrish: n Study
etc. With some additions by Mrs. Arthur
Bronson. New York: q. +, Putnam's
| Sons. Washington Robert Bcall, I9j
Pennsylvania avenue.
A recent addition to the valuable "Story
of the Nation" series now in course of pub
! lication and so popularity acceptable. The
author undertakes no solution of the dis
tracing problems associated with Irish his
tory, but merely to present for the informa-
tion of the young student its earlier tradi-
| tions and modern facts, with their varying
| lights and shadows. The volume contain,
over 400 pages and is handsomely illustrated